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A black slave in Surinam is stretched on a rack as another black man breaks his bones with a wooden stick Wall Art
ART BY: John Gabriel Stedman
A black slave in Surinam is stretched on a rack as another black man breaks his bones with a wooden stick Wall Art
ART BY: John Gabriel Stedman
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A black slave in Surinam is stretched on a rack as another black man breaks his bones with a wooden stick is an engravings by John Gabriel Stedman (1744–1797), dated Decr 2d 1793. The artist is catalogued as Dutch. The source scan comes from the Wellcome Collection, and the file offered here measures 4070 × 6000 px (4.8 MB). It is filed under Prints, in portrait format. Archive Lane holds 5 works by John Gabriel Stedman, a Dutch artist.
John Gabriel Stedman was a Dutch-British army officer and writer best known for writing The Narrative of a Five Years Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam (1796). This narrative covers his experience in Suriname between 1773 and 1777, where he was a soldier in a Dutch regiment deployed to assist colonial troops fighting against groups of maroons.
Biography adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). All works by John Gabriel Stedman →
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